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We just sold George Harrison’s sitar for $62,500 and received a tremendous amount of publicity for it; the same sort of PR we feel we can get for you when we sell your stage or studio used Nirvana Kurt Cobain guitar for over $100,000. Here is the BBC article:

“We’d recorded the Norwegian Wood backing track and it needed something. We would usually start looking through the cupboard to see if we could come up with something, a new sound, and I picked the sitar up – it was just lying around; I hadn’t really figured out what to do with it,” Harrison was quoted as saying in The Beatles Anthologies.

“It was quite spontaneous: I found the notes that played the lick. It fitted and it worked.”

Next year, Harrison gifted the sitar to George Drummond, a friend of Boyd, during the couple’s honeymoon in Barbados.

The Beatles recorded Norwegian Wood – the first Western rock band to use the sitar on a commercial recording – in October 1965, heralding a short lived “raga-rock” genre.

A year later, Harrison travelled to India to learn how to play the instrument under the renowned sitar maestro Ravi Shankar.

In an interview with the BBC’s Mark Tully in April 2000, Shankar said when he first heard Harrison playing the sitar in Norwegian Wood, he was not impressed.

“I couldn’t believe it,” he said, “it sounded so strange. Just imagine some Indian villager trying to play the violin when you know what it should sound like.”

Harrison later agreed, saying the sitar on Norwegian Wood was “very rudimentary”.

“I didn’t know how to tune it properly, and it was a very cheap sitar to begin with. But that was the environment in the band, everybody was very open to bringing in new ideas.”

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The sitar was auctioned in the US

George Harrison’s Sitar From 1965, When The Beatles Recorded ”Norwegian Wood” — With an LOA From Pattie Boyd & the Only Beatles Sitar Ever to be Auctioned / Click above for larger image.

To auction, buy, consign or sell your stage or studio used Nirvana Kurt Cobain guitar for over $100,000, please email Nate@NateDSanders.com or phone our Nate D. Sanders Auction House in Los Angeles (http://www.NateDSanders.com) at (310) 440-2982 for a FREE APPRAISAL.

We at NateDSanders.com offer you a 0% commission on your stage or studio used Nirvana Kurt Cobain guitar and offer you an interest-free cash advance that should save you thousands of dollars over our competitors. We will also grant you a high reserve which no other auction house will let you do. Free FedEx pickup, free insurance and free FedEx shipping to our auction house in Los Angeles.